{"id":4976,"date":"2007-08-19T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4976"},"modified":"2007-08-20T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T15:47:11","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-august-19-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4976","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For August 19, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a>Recently a VP for one of the vendors told me in an email that I should not necessarily believe all of the voting machine failures reported by the media. She said, “I would hope you would know not to believe everything reported by the media! There are many factual errors and opinions that are expressed by the media which do not necessarily equate to the truth of each and every scenario.”\u009d Then she told me, “You should speak to the election officials who conducted these elections below and others where problems are reported for more accurate information.”\u009d In my response I asked if I should be talking to all of the election officials who have now become vendors, or were vendors only to come back to being election officials. <\/p>\n

What confidence should I have in getting the truth from a Kathryn Ferguson, who was the elections director in Clark Co., Nevada, and brought Sequoia DREs into that county then moved to Santa Clara Co., California, where she brought in Sequoia DREs only to quit and be rewarded by Sequoia with a job? Or, any of the thousands of election officials who have spent hundreds of thousands of their voters’ tax money to buy voting systems that don’t work, from vendors who deceive them about those systems, and now must defend those purchases or look like fools?<\/p>\n

As usual, links to all of today’s voting news stories (including one that hits on the above point) all found below…<\/em><\/p>\n

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  • NAtional: Editorial – Voting Reform
    \nFixing the bill that fixes elections     LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • NAtional: Diebold\/Premier’s Touch-Screen Voting Machines Going Way of Edsel LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • CA: Election officials, vendors cozy
    \nState: Recent uproar over decertification of voting machines highlights relationship.     LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • CA: Touch-screen voting faces fuzzy future LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • CA: Riverside County – Vote early, but not electronically LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • KS: Sedgwick County – Funds may go for voting machines LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
  • MS: Leflore County “\u201c Opinion – Election process just has to get better LINK<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/div>\n

    **”Daily Voting News” is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org<\/a> or BradBlog.Com<\/a>**<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org Recently a VP for one of the vendors told me in an email that I should not necessarily believe all of the voting machine failures reported by the media. She said, “I would hope you would know not to believe everything reported by the media! There are many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-voting-news","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4976"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}